README file for Replication Data for: "Pipeline Diversity via Career Diversity: Lessons from a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program"

Jennifer Barnes, Emily Hencken Ritter, Sharece Thrower, Alexander Tripp, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

Software Used: R (Version 4.4.0 -- "Puppy Cup"), RStudio ("Kousa Dogwood" Release (27771613, 2025-02-02) for Windows)

Additional R Packages Required: library(dplyr)

Files Included:

- reu_pre_cleaned_v2.csv -- Anonymized responses from the pre-program REU student surveys for 2023 and 2024.
- reu_post_cleaned.csv -- Anonymized responses from the post-program REU student surveys for 2023 and 2024.
- undergrad_cleaned.csv -- Anonymized responses from a Fall 2024 survey of home institution undergraduate students who were  involved in a political science research lab but not the REU programming.
- replication_analysis_v2.RMD -- RMarkdown file for replicating analyses presented in paper.

All identifying information (including open-ended survey responses) were removed from the survey data. 